
Amy Johnston Blosser is the National Repertoire and Standards Chair for Senior High School Choirs for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). Prior to this appointment she served as the Repertoire & Standards Chair for Senior High School choirs for Central Division. As R&S Chair, Blosser has been active in planning Interest and Reading Sessions at Division and National Conferences in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Oklahoma City. She has chaired ACDA Conference Honor Choirs at the division and national levels, and has served as a member of the ACDA Honor Choir Handbook committee and R&S Committee Structure Task Force that reported to the national leadership conference in 2010. Ms. Blosser is also an active member of The National Association for Music Education (MENC).
In her eighth year as Choral Director at Bexley High School in Columbus, Ohio, Amy Blosser conducts five choirs, serves as vocal music director for annual musical productions, and is the Fine Arts Department Chair. Under Blosser’s direction, the Bexley High School Vocal Ensemble has performed at state conferences of ACDA and MENC. In January 2011, they will sing at the MENC North Central Division/Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her choirs have toured throughout the United States and Europe, performing in notable locations such as Carnegie Hall and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, St. Mark’s in Venice, St. Nicolas in Prague, St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. They have shared performances with ensembles from The Ohio State University, Capital University, Ohio University and Baldwin Wallace College.
Blosser has been an adjudicator and guest conductor throughout Ohio and the Midwest. She was the Guest Conductor for the Summer Music Camp at Ohio Northern University from 2002-2008. She is listed in the 2002 and 2004 editions of
Who’s Who of American Teachers. She holds a Master of Music in Choral Conducting and Bachelor of Music Education from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where she studied with Hilary Apfelstadt, James Gallagher and Robert J. Ward. In addition to her work as a high school choral educator, Amy Blosser is the Director of Traditional Music at Linworth United Methodist Church in Columbus.